Last night (April 17th), Primus recruited a couple of their buddies in TOOL for a special benefit show honoring Canadian filmmaker Jimmy Hayward, who's currently battling cancer. The gig went down at the Belasco in Los Angeles, where Les Claypool and Co. were joined onstage by TOOL drummer Danny Carey and bassist Justin Chancellor, as well as several other friends throughout the night — including Queens of the Stone Age's Troy Van Leeuwen.
Primus played a handful of their own songs throughout the evening, as well as four covers, the highlight being a rendition of TOOL's "Ænema" with the alt-metal band's rhythm section (and Van Leeuwen) up onstage with them.
Featuring Carey and Primus' Tim Alexander stationed next to each other for a dual-drummer assault, the rendition was even more percussively hard-hittng than TOOL's version, and hearing Claypool take on Maynard James Keenan's vocal parts is always a treat.
Elsewhere throughout the set, the band took on Led Zeppelin's "Moby Dick," AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" and King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet. Watch the TOOL cover above and footage of the others below via YouTube.
